Discuss the different brands and sizes of heat presses available on the market, including Hix, GeoKnight, Hotronix, and other smaller manufacturers. Topics include maintenance, selection, styles and more.
Why would you buy a press for 20 hats? Just pay someone to do them for you.
To answer the question, I haven't seen a homemade hat press. But you could buy a used or cheap hat press off ebay that would outperform a cheap homemade press.
Either way. Way back when I first started printing, my business partner built a hat screenpress. I remember we sold printed hats but I have no memory of the press itself. Later when I went to work in a large shop, we printed transfers and used a hat heat press instead.
For a few dozen hats I would just order them from someone before I would buy or build a press for so few items.
I bought a cheapie import hat press, because I needed to press about 100 patches on hats. It paid for itself, but I don't expect it to be my LONG TERM solution. It was a stop gap measure for the cost of $150 or so.....again....if I were making hats as part of my regular business, I'd invest the $500 or so for a name brand. The one I have, however, plays a tune similar to Gilligan's Island theme when the time is up....cute, but that's the LAST thing I'm looking for in a press. LOL
home made hat press?? 
